For Father Mark, who actually bore up under the stares and dread and bad attitudes of the general public with very good grace and humor every time we went out for lunch at the Chinese place or to Taco Bell for a big iced Coke - we were both students at an ecclesiastical Latin summer school which turned out to be run by the Opus Dei, much to our mutual dismay. I had never imagined how difficult and lonely it might be to wear the collar, until I found out by association how the public reacts to it.